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KIROV BALLET & ORCHESTRA NEW YORK CITY CENTER SEASON
(Apr 1-Apr 20, 2008)
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SONATA | BALLET IMPERIAL | LA
BAYADERE | CHOPINIANA | DIANA
AND ACTEON | DON QUIXOTE | ETUDES | JEWELS | IN
THE MIDDLE, SOMEWHAT ELEVATED | LE SPECTRE
DE LA ROSE | PAQUITA | PIANO
CONCERTO NO. 2 | RAYMONDA | SCHEHEREZADE | SERENADE | STEPTEXT | LE CORSAIRE-LE JARDIN ANIMEE
THE DYING SWAN Choreographic composition Music by CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
World premiere: 22 December 1907, Mariinsky Theatre, St.Petersburg
Michael Fokine created The Dying swan in just a few moments-Anna Pavlova was in white tutu for Swan Lake, but her partner had fallen ill the day before an important tutu, symbolizing that she had been shot and wounded, and the word ”Dying” was added to the title. It is an extremely simple piece of choreography: tiny, tiny steps en pointe, a slight movement of the arms. It has never left the stage for almost a century now… Technically accessible to either a prima ballerina or a ballet student, it can be performed on a stage of any size. And although Fokine issued concert. As her best friend, “Misha” could not let “Anya” down… They chose the music in the matter of seconds- Fokine was a professional mandolin player and knew the mandolin arrangement of Saint-Saens’ work. Anna Pavlova then added a ruby brooch to her a series of photographs and detailed description of the dance known as The Dying Swan, almost every ballerina dances her own variation. But only a few dancers, such as Maya Plisetskaya and Galina Ulanova, the two greatest Russian ballerinas of the 20th century, can be compared with the ballet’s first performer. Ulyana Lopatkina is currently considered the finest Russian performer of The Dying Swan.
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